All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 28, Issue 15-16
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Yue Yuen is more profitable
Net income attributable to its shareholders increased by 30.6 percent to $124.5 million for Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings in the first quarter ended March 31. Even after excluding non-recurring items, it went up by 29.5 percent to $105.3 million. The group's total revenues rose by 3.6 percent to $2,100.8 million, ...
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Polygiene is teaming up with Respect Your Universe (RYU), a...
Polygiene is teaming up with Respect Your Universe (RYU), a brand of urban athletic apparel based in Vancouver, Canada, for the development of a line of odorless garments for men and women. The Swedish provider of odor control solutions is also working more closely with Goldwin in Japan for the ...
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Vibram will be an official partner this year for the...
Vibram will be an official partner this year for the Megavalanche, a series of five downhill and endure mountain bike races organized by UCC Sport Event. The series will start with the Transvésubienne, an all-mountain endure race near Nice, France on May 12-14. It will continue the Maxiavalanche in Andorra ...
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Skechers is returning as the official running shoe of the...
Skechers is returning as the official running shoe of the Ironman European Tour this year, with an on-site presence at 35 events in 15 markets
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Weitzmann and Reusch merge
The Weitzmann family, which has owned the Reusch brand fully since last September, has decided to simplify the corporate structure to ensure better service to clients and facilitate the internationalization process. The family, now in its third generation, took over Reusch from the Pentland Group in 2001 along ...
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Upgrade lifts sales at Peak Performance
Peak Performance is apparently reaping the benefits of the strategic measures taken over the last two years to upgrade the ski, outdoor and golf apparel brand, with a sales increase of 13.3 percent to 299 million Danish kroner (€40.2m-$44.8m) for the quarter until the end of March, but more discounts ...
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Spy has launched a revamped version of its website for...
Spy has launched a revamped version of its website for its sunglasses, eyeglasses and goggles. It is particularly designed to provide users of smartphones and tablets to gather all the technical information about the products before visiting a store. The website was developed by John Gilson, the American company's recently ...
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Sportamore, the Swedish online sports retailer, raised its sales by...
Sportamore, the Swedish online sports retailer, raised its sales by 18.1 percent to 173.5 million Swedish kronor (€18.0m-$19.6m) and more than doubled its adjusted operating profit (Ebitda) to SEK 3.4 million (€0.35m-$0.38m) for the first quarter. The company points out that this occurred while the Swedish market was under considerable pressure at ...
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Two more partners have joined the House of Sport, which...
Two more partners have joined the House of Sport, which groups together organizations in sports and leisure. Established in Brussels two years ago, it aims to more efficiently promote the benefits of physical activity and address the sector's challenges. The two newcomers are the European and Mediterranean Horseracing Federation (EuroMedracing), ...
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Hervé Maneint, senior product manager at the Scott Sports Group...
Hervé Maneint, senior product manager at the Scott Sports Group for skis and ski boots, died a few days ago at the age of 56 in the area of Chamonix, hit by a falling rock while on a ski tour in the company of three other people, including two mountain ...
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Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, has relaunched its...
Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, has relaunched its online store in cooperation with KPS, a business consultancy based in Munich. Ochsner Sport's new online store combines e-commerce with marketing and is based on technologies from SAP and Adobe. The Swiss retailer, which is part of the Deichmann group, ...
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For the third month in a row, Sweden's sporting goods...
For the third month in a row, Sweden's sporting goods retail sales fell by more than ten percent compared with last year during the month of March. According to HUI, they were off by 11.8 percent as compared to the same month of 2016. During January and February, the rate ...
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Kempa will outfit the German TV Rottenburg volleyball team from...
Kempa will outfit the German TV Rottenburg volleyball team from the 2017/18 season
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Garmin will be the main sponsor of the Great Tuna...
Garmin will be the main sponsor of the Great Tuna Race this year. The sports fishing contest is described as the most important satellite-based fish tracking program in Europe. It will take place at different locations off the Spanish coast on May 20-21 and Sept. 2-3.
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Merrell is gaining momentum
Wolverine Worldwide reported better-than-expected sales and profits for the first quarter ended April 1, due in part to an accelerated program of store closures and the liquidation of $20 million worth of related inventories. Besides 104 underperforming stores shut down during the quarter, an additional 76 stores were closed in ...
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HeiQ is launching the Fresh NKU, a new product in...
HeiQ is launching the Fresh NKU, a new product in its odor control HeiQ Fresh Tech technology family. According to the Swiss company, the Fresh NKU can eliminate odors such as the plastic smell generated by its monomeric components, the smell from bacterial sweat or that of body hormones from ...
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Ispo is organizing for the first time a six-hour seminar...
Ispo is organizing for the first time a six-hour seminar in Munich on May 31 on the constraints and opportunities of the Chinese market, with presentations by Martin Kössler, initiator of Ispo's Market Introduction Program for China, and executives of Lowa, Point 65 Kayak Sweden and Fenix Outdoor. The seminar ...
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Tacchini splits with Sport Finance, which will focus on Kappa
Wintex Italia, the company that took over the management of the Sergio Tacchini brand four years ago, has stopped working with Sport Finance as its licensee in France, which used to be the second-largest market for the brand in the old days, and replaced it with another French licensee, Movin, ...
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Sport Finance has moved Philippe Sachet from the U.K. to...
Sport Finance has moved Philippe Sachet from the U.K. to Spain to run Kappa Sport Iberia, taking the place of Francisco Cuesta after eight years. Sachet was previously working under Mark Ward, who has been running the British subsidiary of Sport Finance Distribution for two years. Sport Finance is the ...
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Organized by the Management Forum Starnberg, the first European Ingredient...
Organized by the Management Forum Starnberg, the first European Ingredient Branding Summit will be held in Munich on Nov. 8 to 9, 2017. The speakers will include Christian Langer from W.L. Gore & Associates and Manuel Dürmoser from Recco.
